Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...somewhat different plumage - Rudolph Spreckels of San Francisco. The fact which makes Mr. Spreckels' plumage outstanding is that he is a millionaire. He is the eleventh son of the late Claus Spreckels, Sugar King. He is President of the First National Bank of San Francisco, the First Federal Trust Co., the Real Property Investment Corp. and Vice President of the Universal Electric & Gas Co. Furthermore, he de- scribes his chief occupation, in Who's Who, as "reformer." Both as a reformer and as a millionaire he should prove useful to Mr. LaFollette. Immediately after the selection, this Committee...
...Bankers Trust Co., Manhattan, has estimated that the total national wealth of Germany today is about $55,000,000,000. Dr. Karl Helfferich, famed German financier who was recently killed in a railway accident (TIME, Apr. 28), placed the national wealth of pre-War Germany at $73,780,000,000. Sir Josiah Stamp, British statistician, de- clared in 1919 that Dr. Helfferich had overlooked several items and he computed the pre-War Teutonic wealth at $80,500,000,000. Shortly before his death, however, Dr. Helfferich. made an estimate of Germany's post-War wealth. He thought that...
...fashion has been revived and the world is anxiously waiting for its political leaders to cut their coats according to their cloth and not indulges themselves in luxuries. Fred I. Kent, Vice President of the Bankers' Trust Co., one of the greatest financial authorities of the U. S., declared that the Experts' Plan, details of which the representatives of ten Nations were discussing in London, "carries within it so much common sense that it is hardly conceivable that sufficient force can be arrayed against it to prevent its being put into operation." But, warned he, if the plan...
...Baltic (White Star)−Marc Klaw, theatrical producer; L. V. Bright, President of the Lawyers' Title & Trust Co.; Frederick Whelan, principal lecturer for the League of Nations Union; Mrs. Bula Edmundsen Croker, widow of the late chieftain of Tammany Hall...
...Majestic (White Star)−Dr. Edwin A. Alderman, President of the University of Virginia; Frank A. Munsey, publisher; famed surgeons sailing for the International Medical Conference at Lausanne; Alvin W. Krech, President of the Equitable Trust Co.; L. J. Reckford, President of the American Lead Pencil Co.; W. G. L. Behr, California "lumber king"; Eldridge R. Johnson, President of the Victor Talking Machine Co.; Frederick Lonsdale (see above), after three days in the U. S.; John R. Mott, General Secretary of the International Committee of the Y. M. C. A.; Frederick Toppin, Vice President of the International Mercantile Marine...